(A) Screening shall be required in all zoning districts where:
(1) Any off-street parking area contains more than four parking spaces and is within 30 feet of an adjoining Residential Zoning District; and
(2) The driveway to a parking area of more than six parking spaces is within 15 feet of an adjoining residential use or zoning district.
(B) Where any business or industrial use (structure, parking or storage) is adjacent to property zoned for residential use, that business or industry shall provide screening along the boundary of the residential property. Screening shall also be provided where a business, parking lot or industry is across the street from a Residential Zoning District, but not on the side of a business or industry considered to be the front.
(C) All exterior storage shall be screened except materials and equipment currently being used for construction on the premises and exterior storage on farms, except those required to do so on an individual basis by action of the City Council.
(D) The screening required in this section shall mean the installation of a solid wooden fence of a required height, and/or plantings, and/or berms. All plantings used as screening shall be a minimum of six feet in height when planted, shall be of a variety that the Soil and Water Conservation District recommends as suitable for the site, and shall be a variety which is fast growing and non-deciduous. In addition, earth berms shall be considered to be screening. Any berm required as a condition of a conditional use permit shall be high enough to prevent visual access to the structure it is screening. Berms may be required to have plantings, watering systems to support life for the plants, fences or other screening. All screening of whatever type shall provide 90% screening of the structure or facility being screened.
(Prior Code, § 12-191)